Brazil’s Bolsonaro to be probed for attacking voting system


Demonstrators at a rally in support of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 1. The country’s electoral court will investigate him for spreading misinformation about its electronic voting system. – AFP pic, August 3, 2021.

BRAZIL’s Superior Electoral Court announced yesterday it will investigate far-right President Jair Bolsonaro for his constant and baseless attacks on the country’s electronic voting system.

The country’s highest electoral body also agreed to ask the Supreme Federal Court to investigate the president for spreading misinformation during a Facebook Live event last Thursday, in which Bolsonaro spoke for more than two hours about his conviction that there had been fraud in the last two presidential elections, saying he should have won in the first round in 2018.


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